The SNAP Math Fair

After reading the Math Fair booklet, it seems like a great idea for me to run a SNAP Math Fair at my practicum high school. However, I feel like there are some challenges that come with organizing something like this. I have three SA's for my practicum and getting all three of them on board for this will be important to start with. Also, the administrative will have to be in line if I were to do this at my school. Another challenge would be to decide on a field trip location and taking kids to the location. In spite of all these challenges I feel very excited about doing this if all the above concerns work out in my favor.

One thing that I liked the most about the Snap Math Fair was that the kids have to prepare the tabletop displays which means they are presenting the problem to public not the solutions. This one idea seems very valuable to me. If I were to do this at my school, I would mainly focus on getting the kids to solve the problem, collectively, and then focus on presenting it to public and not judges. An interesting idea would be to chose the science world to be the location for the fair and have kids chose a science world monument that they could relate their problem to and solve it and present it to the visitors.